The Salesman's Shoes
Subtitle: Tanka
Publisher: Modern English Tanka Press
Published: April 20, 2007
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Format: Trade Paperback
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780615143965
Subjects: Poetry
Genres: Tanka
First sentence: Seeing traffic lights /
sequencing through green, amber /
red for nobody /
the night watchman’s heart blows out /
like a torn bicycle tyre.
Description: Working within the discipline of tanka, one of the world’s oldest continuously-written forms, this striking debut collection by James Roderick Burns identifies the absurdities and deflations of the human condition, from farm boys thinking of flying saucers to a workaday vision of the end of the world. Intelligent, witty, sometimes melancholic in their beauty, the poems constitute a collection to be relished.
Notes: Collection of poems (seventy five tanka).